Dattalla or Datala (Ancient Greek: Δαττάλλα) was a town of ancient Crete.[1] The inhabitants of Dattalla are documented in a decree dated at the end of the sixth century BCE, that deals with the agreement of the city with a scribe for the public affairs of the city.[2][1][3]
Its exact location is unknown[4] but it must have been located between Knossos and Lato. The modern Afrati has been suggested as a possible location - although some identify that site with Arcadia - or the hill Agios Georgios Papura near the town of Pinakiano.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c Mogens Herman Hansen & Thomas Heine Nielsen (2004). "Crete". An inventory of archaic and classical poleis. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 1155–1156. ISBN 0-19-814099-1.
- ^ Begoña Ortega Villaro, La distribución de imperativo, futuro e infinitivo-imperativo en las inscripciones dialectales cretenses, p.194, in Cuadernos de filología clásica: Estudios griegos e indoeuropeos, ISSN 1131-9070, Nº 8, 1998, pp. 185-208. (in Spanish)
- ^ SEG 27, 631
- ^ Richard Talbert, ed. (2000). Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton University Press. p. 60, and directory notes accompanying. ISBN 978-0-691-03169-9.
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